NO “NEWS” FOR Owing to the Easter Vikcution the next issue of the News will appear April 11th instead of April 4th. “There Was a Sound of Revelry by Night” * “Aunt Desdemona, is this the music: ‘hall?” asked little Rachel as she walked ‘with her aunt down the campus one “No, that is the gymnasium. All the beauty, wit, and song in the college are gathered there this evening,” replied her aunt. A burst of sound sii their ears. “Ah,” little Rachel drew in her breath. “What is that?” “That is the Glee Club rehearsing.” “Oh.” Little Rachel passed her hand over her brow. A look of pain flitted over her face. “Glee Club,” she mur- mured, “Why do they call it that, Aunt Desdemona?” “Come away, Rachel.” evaded the question. “Oh, Aunt Desdemona, listen. People must be fighting behind this door. Do you suppose it is the philosophy club?” “No, child. That’s the members of the News board, talking in their native lan- guage. Talking, scolding at each other.” Aunt Desdemona was very fond of Long- fellow. ‘Come away,” she added. Little Rachel looked disappointed until a third sound became distinguishable. “There must be a zoo downstairs,” she Her aunt cried. “Hear the sea lions roaring!” “Sh. That is not a zoo. It is water- polo.” ae ees The child looked blank. - ep olo,” she gaid, “Polo Pasha?” Aunt Desdemona sighed. “Really,” she began, Then “Let us go down,” she said. They walked to the edge of the pool. “That must be the captain on the bank. J have always heard they wore oilskins.” “No, that is the coach,” said her aunt. ‘Don’t stand so near; they'll splatter your spectacles.” Little Rachel wanted to ask what a _ @oach was, but decided. it was ill-bred. “See the girls over there whistling,” she said. “They do it all the time, but they don’t look happy at all.” “They are whistling for fouls, child.” “But I don’t see any,” she cried. “Mine always came when I whistled to them anyway.” Suddenly the lights went out. “That is the signal to stop water-polo,” said her aunt. “It is the only way of hinting to all these people to go home.” Little Rachel sighed. “I have always heard one had to be very firm with those who have obsessions,” she said. my LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The editors do not hold themselves respon sible for opinions expressed in this column. To the Editor of the College News: “We will make you love us all before the year is done.” Thus 1921 confidently sang at the beginning of the year, and we had Nopes. If such was their inten- tion, some of its members have adopted very strange methods to accomplish this end. We do not quarrel with them for being “fresh”, because unlike most NEW FRENCH MOVIES ILLUSTRATE WAR LECTURE Films Are inlieniiii Fes. A private showing of moving pictures of reconstruction work in France, taken by French army photographers, will ac- ‘company Dr. Florence Wright’s lecture in the gymnasium the Friday night after va- cation. As the moving pictures are to be released later to the public by a film com- pany, no admission will be charged. A collection for the Service Corps will fol- low the lecture. Miss Wright has neon working with Miss Arnine Morgan at Blérancourt under e American Fund for French Wounded, and has returned to fill Miss Morgan’s speaking engagements. She is interested in raising an army of American farmers to work in the reconquered areas of France, DR. ROSS EMPHASIZES IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL THINKING “Personal adjustment to God, repre- sentation of the strongest intellectual life in the college, and an international out- look, should be the ideals of the Christian Association”, said Dr. Ross in tracing the ciation at a meeting of the cabinet last Wednesday evening. Dr. Ross went on to emphasize the im- portance of the Federation Committee, which is connected through the Y. W. C. A. with the World’s Student Federation, and said that this committee should exert a stronger influence in developing inter- national thought in the college. BISHOP OF PENNSYLVANIA TO PREACH HERE APRIL 6TH The Rt. Rev. Philip M. Rhinelander, Bishop of Pennsylvania, will preach here the Sunday evening after vacation. Bishop Rhinelander was Professor of the History of Religion and Missions at the Episcopal Theological School in Cam- bridge, Mass., from 1903 until he was made Coadjutor Bishop of Pennsylvania in 1907. He was consecrated Bishop of the Diocese in 1911 and the year after- ward the degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the University of Pennsyl- vania. GOVERNMENT “KITCHEN” TO BE OPENED War-time recipes are to be tested and standardized in the new official kitchen in Washington by representatives of the Food Administration and the Department of Agriculture, according to the Commit- tee on Public Information. A small building near the Department of Agriculture will house the laboratory. “Recipes from all over the country will be tried and their nutritive value thor- oughly tested.” Suffrage Club to Hear Mrs. Slade At an open meeting of the Suffrage Club, Friday afternoon, April 5th, Mrs. Francis Louis Slade (Caroline McCor- mick ex-96) will speak on War Saving Stamps. Mrs. Slade is head of the War Savings Campaign in New York. development and the ideals of the Asso-|- very easy if I had the time, if I took the ‘| time from the ‘liaison work’ (so called!), in which my knowledge of France imme- diately involved me, and -from my re- searches for the New Republic. As to the | former, I have nothing whatever to’ show for it, but it has taken much energy and many hours: finding this French person for that American and vice versa, trying to bring certain American authorities and certain French together and help in get- ting their ideas ‘across’ to each other; listening to French criticism and Ameri- can criticism and passing it along tact- fully, etc. I have seen quite a little of the Publicity Department of the Civil Affairs Department of the American Red Cross, but had to refuse an offer to give them half-time. Yet they have taken a certain amount of solid time! Through Gertrude Ely and Martha McCook, who are at the head of the woman’s side of the Y¥. M. C. A; and very powerful in the inner councils, I have followed their prob- lems, more or less. They have asked me to lecture or talk to the ‘boys’ on French subjects, and Arthur Gleason is also anxious to have me write an article of ‘constructive criticism’. All this I surely mean to do, want much to do, but have hot yet had time for. The speaking trips are fearfully tiring and can’t be combined with anything else. I should like im- mensely to give a solid month or two to them, and that is what they would like. “The army meanwhile has got me in its toils. I had some letters from Washing- ton, which, combined with the name of le plains his work to-me; and I, of course, dinad.st the vaheus teebek ‘Then I also ‘saw the training camps and lunched with — officers of the line along the way. Then they (i. e. the top of the General Staff) decided they wanted me to see the whole thing and would send me down the ‘line of communication’ to the base port, in order to be able to describe for America the problem of the army from the sea to G. H. Q. But at that point I picked up a purely American grippe germ, which gave me a long siege, partly in an army hos- pital. I am only just all right again. It has lost me six or seven weeks’ work, at least effective work. I am now on the point of starting on the delayed trip, which I shall make partly through the good offices of the American Red Cross, thereby getting material for a Red Cross article. Dr. (Major) Lambert (‘medicin chef’) is taking Mrs. Borden Harriman (sent over by the Council of National De- fense) and Miss Ruth Morgan—and me. I am very incidental, but a seat in a limousine n’est pas & refuser here and now! The army cars are very, very cold, and the trains are hours late and un- heated. Between the Y. M. C, A.‘and this very thorough official view I’m getting I ought to know a great deal about the army, and it is absorbingly interesting. — Then again, of course, half the problems are Franco-American and need very nice interpretation if they are not to offend.” In connection with the liaison work which Miss Sergeant describes, she has published an article in the New Republic of December 29th, entitled “America Meets France”. SILVER BAY VESPERS COMBINE HUMOR AND SERIOUSNESS Athletics Described and an Objection to Silver Bay Refuted The humorous and serious sides of ten days at Silver Bay were described at Ves- pers last Sunday evening by E. Biddle 19, M. L. Thurman '19, and M. Ballou ’20. M. M. Carey, as head of next summer’s delegation, led the meeting. “What you get out of Silver Bay,” de- clared M. L. Thurman, “is not the emo- tional appeal that makes you want to sing hymns, but the opportunity of ten days’ plain, unadulterated thinking about fun- damentals. The sort of person who will get something out of the Conference is the person who wants to have some be- lief, who thinks of religion from some other angle than the ‘it isn’t so’ point of view. “One must be ready to put up with any inconveniences at Silver Bay, As one girl said, the place where we lived was built in seven days and we arrived on the sixth.” M. Ballou told of the sports that take the place of classes in the afternoons. The various colleges compete in tennis, basketball, rowing, swimming, etc., for the athletic championship of the confer- ence. “Right after dinner,” said M. Bal- lou, “there is a sort of magnified Senior singing, when each delegation tries to show off its best college songs.” An objection sometimes raised against Silver Bay was met by B, Biddle, leader of last year’s delegation. “Some people say,” she declared, “that in this year of war we have no right to spend time and money on a luxury like Silver Bay. But Silver Bay is not a lux- ury. As Mr. Ross said, three things are more important than food and ammuni- tion and these three are faith, hope and love. I cannot guarantee that you will come away from Silver Bay enriched with these, but I am confident that you will.” Facts About Silver Bay The Silver Bay Conference begins June 2ist and lasts ten days. Expenses, in- cluding carfare from Philadelphia, can be covered by $35. A paper has been posted in Taylor for the signatures of those who are fairly certain they would be able to go. The delegation of twenty-six will be chosen after Easter. NEWS IN BRIEF Ruth Cheney ex-’18 (Mrs. Thomas Streeter), has a son, born March 25th. R. Hickman-’19 and M. Morrison ‘21 won the Glee Club poster competition and will each receive two complimentary tick- ets to the performance. R. Hickman will make six posters for the halls, and M. Morrison, the program cover. Dr. Fenwick spoke to the History Club last Thursday on international recon- struction, and the establishment of & court of arbitration after the war. V. Kneeland ’18 has taken the place of J. Brown '21 as Lord Loam in the Varsity play, “The Admirable Crichton”, J. Brown is the naval officer instead of J. Peabody 19. To reduce the expenses of Commence- ment the following changes have been made: The Class of 1920 will give up the college breakfast usually given in Com- mencement Week to the Senior Class and returning Alumn@w; the Seniors will ex- change to one hall for their class banquet instead of having a caterer; and R. Hart 18 will supply the class tree from her farm. The Freshman Entertainment netted $235 for the Service Corps.